22 hours

Click. Scroll, scroll. Enter search query:
1983.
Click. Scroll, scroll. Add to query:
blonde hair, blue eyes. Fair complexion -
No results found. Click here to pay $25
to be told again,
no records were found - you're a ghost
in our system.
Please wait thirty seconds between queries,
it says, - what are moments to decades?
Nothing, nothing:
Modify query: April 5,
Nothing, nothing: no relevant data found.
So must it be with we bastard sons of man; surely,
the result of some flesh union whose results
can be further yet called ghosts, immaterial
on this most organic of planes, slipping through
the pixels, emerging lost to the system that was claimed to
see all -
like most, however, deeply corrupt and flawed,
incapable -
although that's not fair, as for
a machine to effectively function, all parts
must operate effectively but
that most critical of components,
blood that begat further blood,
sower and reaper of bastard seed,
builder of false cities, that thing -
that cog and wheel and chain -
Those components critical gone, leaving not wont
but cruel, terrible want,
unable to even be characterized as need -
and yet I saw,
was witness to a system fully-functional and
well-maintained to such a wondrous degree that
it was a marvel -
a marvel that threatened to glamour mine eyes to blindness,
atrophying my good-intentions, shatter my self-delusion,
to realize that the machine-other has /extensions/
hunting and probing, searching out and connected -
but not my system, no -
Maybe it's my data-entry punch card, poorly translated from
early binary, maybe, but I don't believe so - no -
"You just can't express these things in yes or no sequences"
and these questions just can't be asked without feeding into the queries.